Museum Boerhaave

The Museum Boerhaave is a museum of the history of science and medicine in Leiden (Netherlands). It preserves a collection of historic scientific apparatus and equipment mainly from medicine, physics and astronomy, as well as documents on the individual sciences.

History

The museum was established over several decades of the 20th century, initially due to the private initiative of Leiden citizens and scientists of the University of Leiden. Established in 1931, private museum in 1947 converted into a national museum. The Museum's collection grew, so that in 1991, a move to the former nunnery " St. Caecilia " was. At the same time, the museum was renamed Museum Boerhaave by Herman Boerhaave, an eminent Dutch physician and botanist of the 18th century. The museum is now a listed building ( Rijksmonument ).

Collections

The 25 rooms of the museum contain exhibits in chronological order starting with the 16th century. A special room represents a rekonstruktiertes Anatomical Theatre from 1596, which is used for demonstration purposes even today ( 2011). Other rooms show, inter alia, the apparatus with which helium was liquefied in suffering for the first time and a copy of the Leyden jar.

Room 21 is devoted to the Dutch Nobel Prize winners, as Jacobus Henricus van ' t Hoff, the first Nobel laureate in chemistry and the four winners of Physics Hendrik Lorentz (1902 ), Pieter Zeeman (1902 ), Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1910) and Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1913).

Anatomical Theatre (2010)

Museum Boerhaave ( Steenstraat (Leiden), 1931-1991 )

Museum Boerhaave anno 2010